“If you’re head of a large equity firm or hedge fund, your job is to make money. It’s not to create jobs. It’s not even to create successful businesses. It’s to make sure you’re maximizing returns for your investor,” President Obama said during an interview with CBS in July...

Paul Ryan told a reporter on Tuesday that Barack Obama believes that "our natural rights are not enough...that the government must invent and create new rights. But if we put the government in that position, to grant us and define new rights for us, then they're assuming the right on how we exercise those rights......that's giving the government a lot of power....."

This "natural rights" stuff is a pet peeve of mine....so....Consider....

I haven't eaten a sandwich from McDonald's in a very, very long time. Just a personal choice, I have no bone to pick with the fast-food joint. However, family members recently told me that McDonald's is now listing calories alongside their menu items....which, I think, is a good thing.

After all, when you purchase groceries, every food item you purchase lists not only calories per serving, but also other information....sodium, fat, cholesterol, etc. And with the nation's obesity rate near 30%, more information on caloric detail at fast-food restaurants at least provides information to consumers upon which choices can be made...you know, or not. To me, more information is always better than less.

If you are still planning on voting for Mitt Romney for president, I would encourage you to read the transcript of his interview from Sunday's 60 Minutes program.

Mitt describes his too-many-to-count flip-flop positions on issues such as a woman's right to choose, signing a "no new taxes" pledge, or passing an ObamaCare look-a-like healthcare program in Massachusetts....this way....

One more go around on what Mitt Romney told rich donors at a fundraiser held this past May.

...who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them.

In a late October speech at the Heritage Foundation, well before he became the vice presidential nominee, Paul Ryan warned, “We’re coming close to a tipping point in America where we might have a net majority of takers versus makers in society and that could become very dangerous if it sets in as a permanent condition.”

“We’re dismayed at the injustice that nearly half of all Americans don’t even pay any income tax,” Texas Gov. Rick Perry said when he began his presidential campaign.

I've never really understood the right making such a big deal about poor people not paying any income tax. I suppose this has happened because President Obama has been demanding a higher income tax rate on the top 2% of earners.

Conservatism is nothing at all if it isn't a servant of the rich and powerful. To counter any attempts to raise income tax rates on millionaires and billionaires by some 3 1/2%.....I suppose conservatives felt that it was necessary to bash the working poor as freeloaders.

Remember Scott Walker? He's the governor of Wisconsin and the front man in the Republican Party's conspiracy to outlaw public sector unions. After purposely dividing Wisconsin's electorate with his 'end collective bargaining for public sector workers' law, Mr. Walker survived a recall election which he took as a vindication of his take-no-prisoners leadership style.

Now it seems that Walker's 'end collective bargaining' law has been found to be....unconstitutional.

One of the zombie lies coming from the conservative side of the aisle these last four years has been the notion that President Barack Obama has spent his presidency going around the world saying he's sorry for what America has done. That Obama, somehow, is the Apologizer-in-Chief. I'm certain you've heard this zombie lie. Fox, Rush and Hannity display this lie daily in bright neon lights.

Although there is absolutely no evidence that Obama has ever apologized for anything America has ever done.....the zombie lie lives on, only to be repeated again and again by all the usual-suspects each and every day.

The one policy that both major political parties agree upon is our 11 year-long war on Muslim countries.

The reason Mitt Romney, in his RNC acceptance speech, omitted any criticism of President Obama's handling of our 11 year-long war on Muslim countries is because he, and the Republicans who made him their candidate, agree with what Obama has been doing in our 11 year-long war on Muslim countries.

“That pledge says ‘under God,’ and I will not take God out of our platform,” Romney said at the rally, heavily attended by military veterans. “I will not take God off our coins, and I will not take God out of my heart.”

Lies are easy to get away with if they are repeated often enough and given voice by many different people. Repeat a lie often enough and that lie often becomes conventional wisdom. Repeating a lie doesn't change the lie into the truth, it changes the people hearing the repeated lie. They begin to accept the lie as truth. One huge example: 'Iraq has WMD.'

Lies make it impossible for people to communicate with each other......lies make it impossible to, as the Villagers often talk about it, have a real "conversation."

Republicans cheered when the August jobs number came out yesterday. Not because the number was a good number, but because it was not so good. 90,000, plus or minus, new hires in August is better than a negative number but not enough to make a dent in the sea of currently unemployed.

But it was very good news for Republicans intent on damaging the economy and job growth, just enough, so voters will kick President Obama out of the White House.

“Today, we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success. I am committed to keeping taxes low and reducing red tape to make it easier for Virginia’s small business owners to start hiring again, create more jobs and ensure a thriving economy for the future so more people can achieve the American dream.”